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  Tech billionaires are spending millions to crush wealth taxes, deregulate AI and crypto, and elect politicians who will hand them more power. Miles Kampf-Lassin explains why: Democracy remains the biggest obstacle to their plans. https://inthesetimes.com/article/tech-trump-vance-crypto-artificial-intelligence-silicon-valley

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  Funny how “electability” works. Progressive candidates win, and the pundit class immediately starts asking whether they can really win. Jonathan Cohn wrote about this racket back in 2019. Though, frankly, astrology deserves better. https://inthesetimes.com/article/candidates-electability-is-astrology-for-pundits-2020-campaign

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  Silicon Valley’s mythology is built around innovation. Its material foundation includes military contracts, surveillance systems and tools for identifying targets. Sarah Lazare traces that history and the worker organizing challenging it from within. https://inthesetimes.com/article/ai-military-tech-workers-palantir

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  Every federal arts dollar draws $9 in nongovernment support. But the NEA’s inflation-adjusted budget has fallen sharply since 1980. J. Patrick Patterson argues that art should be treated as civic infrastructure. https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-big-idea-publicly-funded-art

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  “Abolition provides toolkits to think about harm, our responsibilities to stop harm, and our responses to harm when inflicted.” For Calvin John Smiley, organized labor can provide a base for putting those principles into practice. https://inthesetimes.com/article/julio-foolio-unions-and-sweat-equity

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  “It can be a powerful practice, with deep possibility for personal and political transformation—if we face what we’re mourning.” For Tisha B’Av, Andrue Kahn and Dania Rajendra asked what grief can reveal—and what it can make possible. https://inthesetimes.com/article/grief-as-a-rupture

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  A 4-day work week sounds great. But workers didn’t win the 8-hour day because employers suddenly became generous. Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon look at what it would take to make shorter hours a durable right—not a workplace experiment. https://inthesetimes.com/article/four-day-work-week-labor-unions-juliet-schor

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  “When I realized I wasn’t going to be allowed to leave…” Angelique Estes’ account opens onto a larger investigation of Texas boarding homes, where Ottavia Spaggiari reports that vulnerable residents can face neglect, abuse, and little oversight. https://inthesetimes.com/article/texas-boarding-homes-elderly-disability-justice-healthcare-investigation-nursing-neglect-abuse

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  New York’s attorney general is now suing Kalshi, alleging the platform is running an illegal gambling operation. Hadas Thier saw the larger story clearly: prediction markets are turning everything from elections to wars into wagers. https://inthesetimes.com/article/prediction-markets-kalshi-polymarket-inflation-silicon-valley-capitalism

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  A peace deal can promise withdrawal, reconstruction and an end to war. But the machinery built around Gaza’s destruction doesn’t disappear with an announcement—and neither do the corporations that armed it, enabled it and profited from it. https://inthesetimes.com/article/gaza-palestine-israel-genocide-tech-elon-musk

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  Texas’ boarding home system fills a gap for people who can’t afford nursing homes or access other long-term care. An investigation by Ottavia Spaggiari documents what can happen when that gap is filled by facilities with few guardrails. https://inthesetimes.com/article/texas-boarding-homes-elderly-disability-justice-healthcare-investigation-nursing-neglect-abuse

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  “Labor could establish Amazon Aid Centers in the metro areas where Amazon operates multiple facilities.” The Missouri Workers Center is already experimenting with the idea. Rand Wilson and Peter Olney make the case for taking that organizing model nationwide. https://inthesetimes.com/article/amazon-labor-organizers-fight-for-15-seiu-teamsters-union

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  The AI boom is also a military buildup. Sarah Lazare reports on the Pentagon money reshaping Silicon Valley, and the tech workers risking their jobs to resist the use of their labor for surveillance, detention and war. https://inthesetimes.com/article/ai-military-tech-workers-palantir

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  From Genoa to Tangier, dockworkers have been refusing weapons shipments, shutting down ports and answering calls from Palestinian trade unionists for international labor action. Sarah Lazare reports that unions in six countries are organizing with the demand: “Public resources must be used to meet people’s social needs, not to finance war.” https://inthesetimes.com/article/dockworkers-six-countries-announce-port-strikes-october-30

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  Michigan’s Senate primary has become a national test of the Democratic Party’s future. Danny Postel reports from Metro Detroit on the contest between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens—and the communities that could decide it. https://inthesetimes.com/article/abdul-el-sayed-haley-stevens-michigan-senate-primary-democratic-party

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  A labor movement capable of changing people’s lives needs organizers, durable institutions & journalism willing to follow the struggle closely. Become a sustainer at $25/month by August 7 & claim one of 10 signed copies of Hamilton Nolan's The Hammer: https://bit.ly/itthammer

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  "What’s for dinner tonight?" "Chart." Alex Hood takes aim at the experts who confuse rising markets with a functioning economy. https://inthesetimes.com/article/itt-comics-alex-hood-bloodless-quant

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  Trump launches a war, possibly ends it, demands a Nobel Peace Prize and prepares to get back to terrorizing immigrants. Tom Tomorrow follows the self-proclaimed dealmaker’s logic to its bleak conclusion. https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-comic-tom-tomorrow-iran-deal-strait-of-hormuz-deal

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  Crypto investors are calling their own industry an “unlicensed casino.” Meanwhile, AI-generated fiction is becoming training material for more AI. Miles Kampf-Lassin checks in on the strange machinery of late capitalism. https://inthesetimes.com/article/crypto-ai-hallucination-late-capitalism

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  “They're doing this with the active assistance of the U.S. and financial assistance from, up until very recently, institutions like the UAW.” UAW delegates have voted to divest $400,000 in Israel bonds—a historic first for the union. Maximillian Alvarez talks with the rank-and-file workers who helped make it happen. https://inthesetimes.com/article/united-auto-workers-divests-from-israel-uaw-palestine-gaza

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  Americans are still working long hours, with no federal guarantee of paid vacation, sick days or parental leave. Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon revisit the long fight for shorter hours—and why a 32-hour week will require organized labor with the power to win it. https://inthesetimes.com/article/four-day-work-week-labor-unions-juliet-schor

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  “Not a single nail will leave.” Sarah Lazare reports that Genoa dockworkers made that promise as the Global Sumud Flotilla sailed for Gaza—then helped turn it into port blockades and general strikes against war on Iran and genocide in Gaza. https://inthesetimes.com/article/dockworkers-six-countries-announce-port-strikes-october-30

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  AIPAC and allied groups have spent nearly $30 million backing Haley Stevens, while her campaign has outspent Abdul El-Sayed 12 to 1. Danny Postel reports on the money, coalitions and stakes in Michigan’s Senate primary. https://inthesetimes.com/article/abdul-el-sayed-haley-stevens-michigan-senate-primary-democratic-party

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  “ICE’s abuse of immigrants is not the result of individual misdeeds—it is policy.” Mitchell Zimmerman examines two fatal ICE shootings in six days, DHS’s explanations for the killings and a broader pattern of violence and deaths connected to ICE operations. https://inthesetimes.com/article/immigration-customs-enforcement-ice-trump-lorenzo-araujo-sebastian-guerrero

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  “The stock market is at an all-time high.” “But groceries are—” Alex Hood illustrates an economist who tries to excuse sky high grocery prices with stock market performance, ignoring the realities of our lived experience. https://inthesetimes.com/article/itt-comics-alex-hood-bloodless-quant

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  According to Jack Ohman, Trump is sleeping through the war in Iran that he started. https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-is-sleeping-through-his-war-on-iran-comics-jack-ohman

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  In Maine, ICE turned grocery runs, school drop-offs and ordinary errands into sources of fear. In this excerpt from "Breaking ICE," Sonali Kolhatkar reports on the neighbors and organizers who built a community defense movement in response. https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-people-fighting-back-inside-maines-immigrant-defense-movement

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  Silicon Valley’s mythology is built around innovation. Its material foundation includes military contracts, surveillance systems and tools for identifying targets. Sarah Lazare traces that history and the worker organizing challenging it from within. https://inthesetimes.com/article/ai-military-tech-workers-palantir

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  The State Department is convening governments around “political terrorism” while federal prosecutors criminalize solidarity at home. In Minnesota, worker assemblies and anti-ICE organizing are being cited as evidence of conspiracy. https://inthesetimes.com/article/sweeping-federal-indictments-of-ice-observers-net-minnesota-unionists

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  Ranked-choice voting lets people support the candidate they actually want without worrying that they’re handing the election to the candidate they like least. J. Patrick Patterson explains how it works and why it could bring disillusioned voters back. https://inthesetimes.com/article/ranked-choice-voting-big-idea-election